My daughter Sharla was a freshman in high school when she and a friend of hers named Cindy approached me about chaperoning a group of students from our church in Germantown, TN so that they might experience Mountain T.O.P. We got together a small group and attended the outreach project around 1979--we were hooked for the next 5 years! What a beautiful program George Bass created! Twenty-five years after the Germantown, TN Church first attended, the wonderful people of the church honored my daughter, her friend, and me with an event there. We had long since moved to other parts of the country, but to know that the Mountain T.O.P. program still continues today with many, many more attendees from Germantown UMC than that first year we began, makes my heart sing. And I just read today that a church in which I have been a recent previous member is attending its first Mountain T.O.P. this coming summer. Congratulations CUMC of Plano, TX!! I hope to look up pics to post of some of the many friends we made during our years of "stretching our faith"!!!